This is the result of a test with the sky replacement of Luminar 4

Again, the scene is the medieval castle of Berkhamsted, or what is left of it, and, to the left, the gatehouse of 1865. What I am experimenting with is "sky replacement". The actual sky was boring and featureless. Now, is this an editorial 'emergency' that entitles you to take drastic steps to 'improve' the image? I wonder what people feel about it.

Last sun light in the year 2017 hitting this mountain top, and the almost full moon rising behind it.

A scene at Shenfield Station in Essex, given a soft pencil treatment.

Sky replacement in Photoshop

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SM48-127 substituting apparently faulty SU45 or SP32, with D-train 22509 "Solina" from Warszawa Zachodnia to Bełżec, is approaching Zawada station. July 15, 2007.

Photo by Jarek / Chester

SM48-127 zastępująca najprawdopodobniej zdefektowaną SU45 albo SP32, z pociągiem pospiesznym 22509 "Solina" z Warszawy Zachodniej do Bełżca, zbliża się do stacji Zawada. 15 lipca 2007 r.

To była tylko grupa wagonowa od zasadniczej "Soliny", jadącej oczywiście bardziej w kierunku tego jeziora :)

Fot. Jarek / Chester

Assemblage

When I was in San Miguel a few years back, this otherwise charming alley was defaced with ugly graffiti. I was happy to find that, now, there are a number of artistic/more pleasant renderings and murals along the way.

rinconada de la aldea

san miguel de allende, gto

mexico

Mainly, I replaced the sky using Luminar 4 in this re-edit. Its amazing AI did this in one click with no painstaking masking needed. Original edit below in Comment section. Whatever your opinion on sky replacement, I like playing around with software to see what it can do.

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Here is a photo from the archives that I may have never of posted if not for the new Photoshop "sky replacement" tool. The sky in this plane photo before the sky replacement was a very boring light blue sky. My kids got me a years subscription to the online photoshop and just getting around to see what it has to offer. This is my first attempt and there are some adjustments that I still have to learn.

I feel a little "dirty" replacing a sky in one of my photos, never really done that before. In doing this it brings a lot of questions to my photo and photography in general.

Should replacing a sky even be allowed and still call it a photo or is it now more a piece if art?

In the future do I need to acknowledge that the sky was replaced in a photo or say nothing? If I take and post a photo that has an amazing sky do I need now to say that the sky was not replaced?

Is it OK to use someone else skies in your photo or just use one that you created? This is my own sky shot in this photo.

Please give me you opinion in the comments below.

Thanks and have a great Sunday!!

Redux with jet plane contrails removed… flic.kr/p/2jxFUr2

Another couple of declared cheat shots to transform birds photographed on bare branches against an empty sky.

This is a Little Friarbird.

Wired to wireless..

Shot for Our Daily Challenge ”Through Time: A Photographic Journey”

I was very excited today to try the new sky replacement tool in Photoshop. This is an image I took in Iceland which had a very dull gray sky. With very little effort, I was able to replace the sky with a more interesting one.

The new tool is very powerful and has features I have yet to learn for minimizing halo's at the horizon.

Tilled the lawn, scattered a mix of seeds, let anything grow. No regrets.

For a bit of fun, the same photo as the previous one but with Luminar 4 sky replacement. I prefer to keep my skies original, but thought this a good one to experiment with.

After our Dolomites hike last September, we spent four nights in Venice, staying in the Cannaregio area. On our first night not far from where we were staying.

I process my photos with Lightroom as well as Skylum's Luminar and find it easy to use with great results. Here is a link if anyone is interested in trying it out and with a $US10 discount: skylum.grsm.io/janetteasche8660

Hounslow, Feltham, Staines, Ascot

On1 Photo Raw 2022 has a new sky replacement tool. It just came out today. I got to play with the program in advance and it was a lot of fun. Their new denoise plugin is no joke.

Following the old IC branch west of Rantoul, IL, my friends and I were hoping to find the rare GP28 owned by the elevator here in Dewey. We were a bit surprised to see this ex CNW GP50 instead. The Co-Op still owns the GP28, which is parked in the barn with mechanical issues and from what we understand, is for sale.

Interested in purchasing a high-quality digital download of this photo, suitable for printing and framing? Let me know and I will add it to my Etsy Shop, MittenRailandMarine! Follow this link to see what images are currently listed for sale: www.etsy.com/shop/MittenRailandMarine

If you are interested in specific locomotives, trains, or freighters, please contact me. I have been photographing trains and ships for over 15 years and have accumulated an extensive library!

CN ES44AC 2840 leads a manifest West part the somewhat new signals at Ivanhoe, which are about to be replaced with even newer signals. Gary, IN

Another example of sky replacement with Luminar 4. This time the bird was reasonably well exposed, but the sky was a pretty boring, featureless blue. I found it a nice complementary backdrop.

for "pre - replacement 1" next door x 2 >

Another view at Chingford Station forecourt from a different angle.

Olympus mju 2 / expired 200iso film (Press color)

IC 9602 and WC 1559 slumber away in the Junk Yard at Stevens Point WI until called on for another assignment. Eventually units like the 9602 will be all one will find in the yard here as CN slowly kills off the former WC SW1500 fleet due to age, mechanical condition and the current downturn in traffic.

MEC33 (BD09ZVY) Rail Replacement at Orpington Station

Metroline VWH2034 (LK64EHB) at Wembley Park working W817 on the Jubilee line rail replacement service JL-2 to Baker Street.

Abellio London Enviro400H 2447 is pictured at Hatton Cross Station whilst working on Piccadilly Line Rail Replacement to Acton Town

One of my favorite catches of the 2022 summer vacations at my family up north.

SM42-349, the last of all SM/SU42 locomotives in PolRegio's fleet in the old Przewozy Regionalne's livery, was deployed for around 3 days in August to run one pair of trains on the Ostbahn between Chojnice and Tczew instead of a Pesa Link, which broke down. Here the evening train can be seen leaving Czersk on the way back to Chojnice, which once used to be called Konitz.

This required me to wake up at 4am to take a train from the tricity to the Ostbahn, spend a whole day there and return back home around 1am the next day, nevertheless I find that it was worth every drop of tear and sweat :).

Also check out the picture of the morning train in Starogard Gdański here

Photo by Piotrek/Toprus

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Replacement masonry detail for York Minster Cathedral

The rainy season is upon us. Our usual bright sunshine "faz falta".

Sky Replacement original.

This is the original photograph of an eagle fly-by with wires visible at Conowingo before the sky replacement.

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Y6 SYM is seen here on SWR Rail Replacement at Surbition Station

With DP274 now withdrawn and preserved, the standby vehicle has changed up a little bit.

Pictured are VW1275, VW1271 (hidden behind) and VW1293. The official Meal Relief bus will be DES799 but it's current location is unknown!

These two are pretty good. Don't eat or need heat, shots, licenses, tags and don't use litter. Don't claw furniture. They don't play either. But they fill a void for now.

The little calico came from a lady named Jane Boyle from Princeton Telecommunications in NJ and neither of us remembers where the orange ceramic tabby came from but he has piercing green eyes.

Dedicated to Carly - Paul McCartney's Calico Skies: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHHxYl75eu8

In October, November and December 2011, engineering works closed both the Exmouth Branch Line and the line between Exeter and Honiton.

Optare Solo 53108 - EO02FLH- awaits duties on the Exeter - Exmouth Rail Replacement Service, in the company of Mid Devon Coaches 990XYA, a Jonckheere bodied Volvo B10M, preparing to depart on the Exeter - Honiton rail replacement service.

E400 2604 is pictured at MediaCityUK whilst working on Metrolink Replacement. The line was closed long term between Eccles and MediaCityUK for track renewal works